Improved paste for polishing metals



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PETER McMANUS AND GEORGE W. LATIMER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Letters Patent N 103,909, dated June 7, 1870.

IMPROVED PASTE FOR POLISHING METALS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To whom it may concern Be it known that we, PETER MoMAxUs andGEORGE W. LATIMER, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State ofMichigan, have invented a new and useful Paste for Polishing Metals; andwe do declare that the following is a true and accurate formula forpreparing the same. 7

The nature of this invention relates to the composition ofa paste forproducing a brilliant polish when applied to the surface of metals,which shall be durable and not injurious thereto.

To prepare our compound, we take about seven pounds of pulverizedrotten-stone in a vessel, and stir in, until thoroughly incorporatedtherewith, three pounds of pulverized bath brick. To this mixture we addthree pints of sweet oil, and three pints of good soft soap. The wholeis then stirred together and passed through a paint-mill, which reducesthe sarne to a smooth mixture, which, after packing in suitable boxes,is ready for market.

To clean and polish silver-ware, plated-goods, brass, tin, cutlery,850., take a little of the paste on a dry flannel cloth and rub on thearticle to be polished until the article appears clean, and then finishup with a chamois-skin, when a brilliant polish will be produced, whichcannot injure the metal, cannot be alfected by water, hot or cold,steam, or atmospheric changes, retaining its luster until worn or rubbedofi'.

\Ve claim as our invention The polishing-paste, when compounded of thein gredients and in the proportions herein described.

PETER McMANUS.

- GEO. W. LATIMER.

\Vitnesses:

FREDERICK EeERTs,

SAM. J. SPRAY.

